The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-28

g--Alcazar Palace, Toledo, Spain lately re-
' Ss~ons hundred Chimes: soldiers = bssid is
several mandarins lost by drowning in coils
| ion 1t Shanghai.
with bark Ada Milmore of coast Of Brazil 800
immigrants for Australia drowned; both ves-
sells lost.
FEBRUARY.
| 5--Fifty lives lost at Woodstock, Vt. express
train thrown into White River by broken rail.
l2-Hotel Continental. Berlin. burned: loss
ls-In storm along tho Rocky Mountain
range from the British line to New Mexico 20
per cent. OF the cattle persisted.
| 2-Earthquake shocks In the vicinity OF
Nice and Genoa, ON the Mediterranean Sea,
caused the loss OF 6o0 lives; 10000 persons rem
dered homeless; material losses slo. ooaoo.
| 2~Chinese junk wrecked of Socotra coast
594 persons rerished.
2S-Fre losses during February aggregated
S.50,oo0.
1-Explosion In colleries mt st. Etienne.
| France; sixty lives lost Burning OF steamer
Gardner near Gainesville. Ala; twenty lives
| lost
e-Explosion in colliery at Mons Belgium
| 144 miners suffocated.
senger train through bridge on Boston ana
Providence Railroad. near Boston.
49, Richmond Hotel at Buffalo, N. ", burned /;
2i-Eighty-hve lives lost by explosion. in
colliery at Lidney, England.
29-Steamer Benton sunk in collision Off the
| island of Formosa; 40 persons persisted.
3l-FIres during March entailed losses in the
United States and Canada aggresating s10,-
A. 900.
2-Fal of church roof at Linguaglossa,
Sicily; forty persons killed..
Kansas. Missouri. Arkansas, and Ken
tucky were swept by storms, and scores OF
people killed by flying debris in Kansas. some
hail-stones were found measuring thirteen
Of Australia was swept by hurricane and the
pearl fishing fleet was destroyed; $50 persons
persisted.
2-Steamer John Knox foundered of Channel
Harbor. N. f.: thirty lives lost
3-In a coal mine at Nanaimo, British Column
fire; ITO persons persisted. Three towns In the
State OF Sonora, Mexico. destroyed by earth
quake: ITO lives lost every house in the town
of Bavispo was injured; 100 persons wore
buried in the ruins eau sed by the first shock.
2o-Forest fires devastated the northern pom
insula OF Michigan. causing loss OF 5000. o0O.
including the town of Lake Linden (S2, 500, COZ,
which was destroyed; eight lives were reported
lost.
s4-steamer Sir John Lawrence lost in the
Bay OF Bengal; 800 Hindoo pilgrims, mainly
women drowned
25--One hundred and thirty persons persisted
in the burning OF the Opera Comique, Paris.
27-Belt Line stables burned Mt New York,
with ], 300 horses; loss, 81. $4,000.
2s--Gas explosion in coalpit at Blantyre,
Scotland seventy-fve miners persisted.
JUNE.
s-Explosion OF fire-damp in n coal pit OF
Westphalis; fifty three miners killed.
T-Steamer Champlan burned near Charlie
voiX, Mich. twenty-five lives lost,
1S-While eros ing the Danube River near
Paks n ferryboat containing 4Os Hungarian ref
ugees capsized over 800 were drowned
21-Marshheld. Wis, nearly destroyed by fire
loss. about si,coo,ooo.
JULY.
Ga landslide carried forty houses into Lake
Zug. Switzerland 10 persons persisted. The
town Of Nagg karolyi, Hungary, was destroyed
by hurricane AID watcrspout; many persons
lost their lives. The Wonchow 1sver in China
overlooked it's banks. submergng miles of ter
rit0ry; thousands of people were drowned
a--Fire record for July showed losses by fire
in tho United States aud Canada to have been
sl4. o28, 6OO-doublo the average loss in July for
the past twelve years
AUGUST
5-Millbrook, Kan. swept by a cyclone aud
eighty buildings destroyed,
S--Forest fires ragged in Northern Michigan
and Wisconsin; vast amounts Of timber and
other property consumed.
1o-WrecS Of an excursion train near Chats
worth. Ill. upward Of $50 persons killed and
injured number of deaths, 81.
u-Inmnn Line steamer City Of Montreal
burned at sea- ono boat containing thirteen
persons missing.
SEPTEMBER
5-Over $50 persons burned. suffecated. OF
crushed to death In a theator fire mt Exeter.
England
9CThe Yellow River, in China. overlooked
its banks destroying Chin-chow and ten other
populous cities .es~ square miles OF territsry
was submerged thousands OF persons were
drowned, and q million survivors were reported
starving.
3O-Fire losses for September were 81 ,os7, 900.
against 81, 5eO, 80 during the same month last
year aggregate losscs for the srst mine months
OF 1897 SJ3. f38, po-Sl0 600 900 greater than
for the same period of 1886
OCTOBER.
and 6-Quelito, town Of 5000 inhabitants.
on the southern coast OF Mexico, totally de-
etToyed many lives lost
u-At Kvuts. Ind, freight crashed into q
passenger train ON tho Chicago and Atlantic
fuva fly mai taha
@-Wrsck OK the steamer Vernon in lake
Michigan, of Two Rivers. Wis. thirty-six OF
the passengers and crew porfshSd.
3l-During the year. ending at data. seven
teon Gloucester MASS fishing vessels were
lost les men perishrng, who left over sixty
father,ess children.
NOVEMBER.
1-Sirty fishermen drowned off Boulogne; at
Etnb es seven bodies dashed together wero
washed ashore.
3-Twonty five men buried in a load mine ut
Matlock England
1@Stsamer Wah-Yeung burned at Canton,
China 4J9 pass sngers lost
1a-Sinking of Dutch steamer Scholten in
collision with English steas Rose Mary,
near Dover, England; 1872 lives lost
23-Russ an steamers Saeus and Vesta col
lidet OF tho Crimesu cost: the Vesta sunk
and thirty-five of her Grew drowned.
DECENBEn.
10-The famous Calumet and Hecla mine, in
the copper district Of Michigan burnt out IN
aero of land over the mine cavea In. requiring
three years work to put the ruinsin order; the
fire bcsNn Nov. ~.
12-Three children locked up At homo by
their parents. near Point Pleasant. w. Va.
burned to death-third case of tho kind in that
vicinity within year.